Asciidoc is much nicer than anything one can do in javadoc. 

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> On Apr 19, 2017, at 10:10, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Maybe from package level Javadocs?
> 
> Gary
> 
>> On Apr 18, 2017 5:56 PM, "Remko Popma" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Asciidoc can include code snippets or whole files:
>> http://asciidoctor.org/docs/user-manual/#include-partial
>> 
>> I'm not convinced that it's desirable to generate the user manual from
>> javadoc though. They usually target different audiences so the content is
>> different.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Apr 19, 2017, at 9:03, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> When I worked on my Hibernate book, we had a system that would extract
>> text
>>> out of source files into the xhtml book source. All of the examples in
>> the
>>> book come from real code that gets compiled and tested before the book is
>>> built. So it is all doable.
>>> 
>>> Gary
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 18, 2017 4:37 PM, "Matt Sicker" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> We have a similar issue in Log4j right now where documentation is mainly
>>>> maintained in the manual pages, but there are javadocs as well. Ideally,
>>>> I'd like to be able to generate the manual pages from the javadocs, but
>> I
>>>> haven't really looked into how to do that yet. I've seen such a pattern
>>>> used with other projects. Also, being able to compile and verify the
>>>> example code in the docs would also be good, but having those code
>> samples
>>>> be included straight from unit tests or test resources would be a good
>> way
>>>> to ensure both.
>>>> 
>>>>> On 18 April 2017 at 10:16, Dominik Psenner <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> We probably should at least add a remark that points readers to the SDK
>>>>> reference and avoid the double effort of maintaining the documentation
>> on
>>>>> the website too.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Dominik
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 2017-04-18 17:09, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi John
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 2017-04-18, John V wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Please forward this if you are not the appropriate recipient.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Many thanks!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I was browsing the documentation on the Log4Net website for a list of
>>>>>>> all of the formatting flags for the PatternLayout, but could not find
>>>>>>> one.  I did discover some dead links on the manual's introduction
>> page
>>>>>>> at http://logging.apache.org/log4net/release/manual/
>> introduction.html
>>>>>>> Under the Layouts heading none of the links seem to be valid.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It looks as if all the links to the API docs have been broken. I'll
>> look
>>>>>> into it, may take a few hours, though.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> In the meantime, the docs are at
>>>>>> http://logging.apache.org/log4net/release/sdk/index.html -
>>>> PatternLayout
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> http://logging.apache.org/log4net/release/sdk/html/T_log4net
>>>>>> _Layout_PatternLayout.htm
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>        Stefan
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Matt Sicker <[email protected]>
>>>> 
>> 

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